- Title
- Introduction: queer women on television today
- Creator
- Beirne, Rebecca
- Relation
- Televising queer women: a reader p. 1-10
- Relation
- http://www.palgravemacmillan.com.au/palgrave/onix/isbn/9780230340985
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- When "The L Word" first screened in 2004, it was widely celebrated as a watershed moment for lesbian culture and representation, but it also was critiqued on a number of fronts. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the media engaged in a form of communal amnesia about the forms of queer female representation that had come before the Showtime series, effectively overstating its "newness" and the extent to which the world of lesbian representation on television had changed. In recent years, however, I have come to believe that things have changed. We have come a long way since the mid-1970s, when "every sexual minority in a network drama [in fall 1974] was a violent criminal" (Capsuto 107) and the media committee of an organization known as Lesbian Feminist Liberation, Inc., wrote an open letter to television stations protesting the screening of programs that "are detrimental to our fight for our civil rights and dignity" (Cotter). Although their demand of "no negative portrayal of lesbians on television until 12% of all the women represented on television are portrayed as lesbians" has yet to be met, today we have a greater number and variety of representations of queer women on television than ever before.
- Description
- 2nd
- Subject
- lesbian; lesbian culture; television
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057548
- Identifier
- uon:16207
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780230340985
- Language
- eng
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